ZOMG!
Reid Cherlin, a White House press officer, told the New York Times that Obama saw the panel as "a philosophically leaning advisory group" handpicked by the Bush administration, and that he wanted to appoint a new bioethics commission that instead offered "practical policy options."
Dr. Peter Lawler, chairman of the department of governmental and international studies at Berry College, was one of those terminated by Obama — via a note saying he would no longer be a member of the council by the end of the next business day.
At last the bioluddites are being tarred and feathered and run out of town.
Hilariously, the tool that wrote this article tries again to equivocate hASCR and hESCR.
ONE MORE TIME!!
hASCR and hESCR are complimentary, not competitive. hASCR is better for tissue replacement, because of rejection issues, but hASCR is useless for disease modelling and markedly inferior for anti-scenescence research.
Seriously, how can I not lurv the guy? He embodies two of my most favorite things evah....bricolage and parsimony. Note he just the sacked the bioluddites and socons on the Council. He plans to reuse it for a different function like any good bricoleur, by replacing Bush's socon stooges with real scientists and pragmatist/realists, while retaining any actual authentic talent and coopting it for his adminstration. And quietly, quietly...they hardly even feel the blade slipping in....not a single mention of this on HotAir or Redstate.
This is how Obama is reshaping our culture.
Simply full of win.
note: hASCR is human Adult Stem Cell Research and hESCR is human Embryonic Stem Cell Research